44440Re: [FH] Re: New Member--need input about possible heart issues

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Shelleee12@aol.com

Mar 5 3:22 PM

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I agree with you Henna!

After losing one 6 year old cat just a month prior due to a sudden
clot...(unknown and undiagnosed HCM) I was woken up in the middle of the night by
his brother doing a kind of hairball cough..just for a moment.....but not
from hairballs....sounded like he was trying to cough up mucous. I took
him first thing in the morning to see my vet. My vet said that cats don't
cough from heart disease.....and he looked and sounded fine otherwise. To be
safe and to ease my mind, he did a chest xray to make sure he didn't have
a bronchial type issue. He could see, immediately, that my boy had a
serious heart issue and said the coughing I heard was fluid. I was sent to a
Cardiologist who was surprised that I took him to my vet as, outwardly, other
than that cough, he showed no signs of illness. He said it's a silent
killer. Though he had the best care and proper meds, I lost him within three
months of losing his brother.

So, I HAVE to agree with Henna, though they say that cats don't cough from
heart disease...they CAN cough from the fluid in their lungs caused by
heart issues....

My beloved Leo had a cough (that took place in the middle of the night).
The vets he first saw apparently thought that heart disease is not associated
with coughing since they diagnosed him with asthma. And that almost cost
him his life right then.